Original upload date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 01:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Thu, 09 Dec 2021 02:01:27 GMT
Books and Books in Coral Gables hosted an event for TRISHA POSNER and GERALD POSNER - husband and wife authors - on March 23, 2017. Their talk focused on how they worked together and why Nazis, World
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War II and the Holocaust have been a consistent thread through many of their projects. They concentrated on two of their books, Gerald's 1986 biography of Auschwitz's Angel of Death, Josef Mengele (MENGELE: THE COMPLETE STORY). And Trisha's 2017 biography of Victor Capesius, the camp's chief pharmacist (THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ: THE UNTOLD STORY).
In this 5-minute clip, Trisha reveals how a tension-filled 1986 meeting in New York with Rolf Mengele, the only son of Dr. Josef Mengele, inadvertently sparked the idea for her to pursue a project about Auschwitz's little known pharmacist, Victor Capesius.
